February 19, 2009

Artists from Two High Schools Collaborate on Graphic Design Project

The "Landscape of the Mind" was a collaborative art project between the computer graphics classes at Newark High School and Naperville Central High School.

This graphic design project involved the use of Adobe Photoshop, email, and iChat video conferencing software. Students created a digital panel, cropped the edge and emailed the cropped piece to their partner at the collaborating school. The partner expanded the panel and continued the design using photographs and photo retouching tools within the Adobe Photoshop program. In turn, the panel was cropped and emailed back to the original artist and the entire process was repeated.

Upon completion of the project, students discussed the project and critiqued their results through a video conference. Students discussed the role of technology in creating distant collaborative opportunities. Read more...